Group 3 – 12CNATM01

• Topic : The US President election and Political system

Contents:

• Some remarkable U.S Presidents.• U.S President election procedure.

(SGK 124-125)

• Political system of the U.S(SGK 122-123)

George Washington(1732 – 1799)

George Washington(1732 – 1799)

• The first US President

•The commander in chief during the American

Revolutionary against British Colony

• One of the founding fathers of The United States

• The U.S Capital was named after him

• The only President gained complete number of vote

I. Quiz : Who are they?

Abraham Lincoln

• Was the first U.S. president assassinated. • Called “the great liberator” • led the United States through its civil-war- its

constitutional and political crisis, abolished slavery by Emancipation Proclamation.(Tuyên ngôn giải phóng nô lệ)

• Modernized the economy, finance.

(1809-1865)

John F. Kennedy(1917-1963)

• President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas,with gunshots in throat and head

• The youngest politicians ever elected US president

• The last president died in office

• "My fellow Citizens of the world: ask not what America Will do for you, but what together We can do for the freedom of man"

• If Kennedy had not been assassinated, Vietnam War could have been different.

U.S President election• Taken place every 4 years.

• Election Day is the Tuesday between November 2 and 8

•The entire presidential campaign and election process usually takes almost two years.

• 4 steps: Step 1: Primaries and Caucuses Step 2: National Conventions Step 3: General Election Step 4: Electoral College

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U.S. Constitution's Requirements for a Presidential Candidate

• Spring of the previous calendar year – Candidates announce their intentions to run• Summer to December of the previous calendar year – Primary and caucus debates

Starting phase

U.S President election procedures

January to June – Vận động ứng cử -> Bầu cử sơ bộ và họp kín

U.S President election procedures

July to early September – Nominating conventions (including those of the minor third parties)

Đại hội Đảng

(Tổng tuyển cử)

U.S President election procedures

Late September and October – Presidential election debates (vận động tranh cử)Early November – Election Day

(Cử tri đoàn)U.S President election procedures

December – Electors cast their electoral votesEarly January of the following calendar year – Congress counts the electoral votes

U.S President election procedures

January 20 of the following calendar year – Inauguration Day

The US political system

• In which the power is divided into 3 branches to control national issues (this is called “Separation of Power”) :

- Legislative branch (Lập pháp)- Executive branch ( Hành pháp)- Judicial branch (Tư pháp)

• The U.S Power is based on The Constitution

Legislative branch(Lập pháp) – Create the laws

Controlled by The U.S Congress House of RepresentativesThe Senate (Thượng viện)

• Can make Federal laws approved by both House by over ½ members (thông qua luật Liên Bang với nửa số phiếu thành viên)

Hạ viện

• Declare a war with a country (tuyên chiến với 1 quốc gia)

• Levy or charge a Federal tax (áp dụng thuế liên bang)

• Control the national budget (kiểm soát ngân sách)

• Accuse the President and dismiss him from office (2/3 votes)(Cáo buộc và bãi nhiệm Tổng thống với hơn 2/3 số phiếu)

Executive branch

• Can appoint or dismiss head of a department and Federal Judge or any position in Supreme Court with the permission of US

Congress (bổ nhiệm/cách chức bộ trưởng,thẩm phán Liên bang hay bất kì vị trí nào

trong tòa án tối cao)

(Hành pháp) – Enforce the laws

• Issue regulations and directly carry out the work of federal departments and agencies (Ban hành các quy định và trực tiếp điều hành các bộ ngành liên bang)

Controlled by U.S President, Vice President, and the cabinet

• May veto a bill passed by Congress if he supposes it is unconstitutional (phủ quyết 1 đạo luật trái với hiến pháp)

Judicial branch

• Declare Presidential acts unconstitutional (cáo buộc các hành động vi phạm hiến pháp của T/Thống)

(Tư pháp) – Interpret the lawsControlled by the U.S Supreme Court

• Federal Judges are appointed for life until they retire voluntarily or they break the law (Trừ những TH vi phạm pháp luật hoặc tự nguyện về hưu, các thẩm phán L/Bang được bổ nhiệm vĩnh viễn)

• They can declare the laws unconstitutional ( phán quyết các đạo luật vi phạm hiến pháp)